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Life’s pretty good out here but that doesn’t mean it’s always simple. My experience in week 1 when the electricity died at 9 in the evening was a case in point. I called up a colleague and it turned out that we have a pre-pay meter in our flat (as everyone does). So the simple solution would have been:

Step 1 – top up the pre-pay meter. But the shop in town where you can do this was closed, so the fall-back option was;

Step 2 – stick on the generator. Unfortunately it was out of petrol, and not connected to the house; so we needed to;

Step 3 – connect the generator. The only guy who works at the apartment who knew how to do this was at the beach, thus,

Step 4 – get the dude to come back from the Beach. Meanwhile;

Step 5 – re-fuel generator. Normally this is done from the nearest petrol station where we have pre-pay coupons, but that was closed so we headed down hill to the other petrol station. Not having the coupons meant we needed cash, but I had no local currency (and you can forget cash machines), so;